Saul Bron | |
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Born | |
Died | Kommunarka shooting ground, USSR (burial place) | 21 April 1938
Cause of death | Executed during Stalin's Great Purge |
Nationality | Ukrainian Jewish |
Citizenship | USSR |
Spouse | Klara Azarievna Bron (Kholodovskaya) (1885-1945) |
Children | Lev Saulovich Bron Miriam Saulovna Bron |
Saul Grigorievich Bron (Saul G. Bron, S. G. Bron; Russian: Саул Григорьевич Брон), (25 January 1887, Odessa – 21 April 1938, Kommunarka, Butovo) was a Soviet trade representative in United States and Great Britain. He is best known as Chairman of Amtorg Trading Corporation in New York City (1927–1930) and Chairman of the All-Russian Co-operative Society (ARCOS) in London (1930–1931). He became a victim of Stalin's Great Purge and was executed on 21 April 1938. He was posthumously rehabilitated in 1956.